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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 17, 2021 | Bonhams | Melbourne | Sir Sidney Nolan | 114 | $****** - ****** | Antarctica |
paintings
122 x 122 cm (48.03 x 48.03 in)
oil on board
signed, dated and inscribed verso: "Antarctica / 29 Aug 1964 / nolan"
Sir Sidney Nolan, United Kingdom, until 1992
Lady Nolan, United Kingdom, until 2016
The Estate of Lady Nolan, United Kingdom
LITERATURE
Rodney James, Sidney Nolan: Antarctic Journey , Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, 2006, cat. 19, p. 73
RELATED WORKS
Antarctica , 1964, oil on composition board, 121.9 x 121.9cm (NGA 2017.228); Antarctica , 1964, oil on composition board, 121.9 x 121.9cm (NGA 2017.229), and Antarctica , oil on composition board, 121.9 x 121.9cm (NGA 2017.230), all in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 2017 from the estate of Lady Nolan
Mt. Erebus , 1964, oil on composition board, 122.0 x 123.0cm, in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, purchased in 2011 from Lady Nolan
Antarctica , 1964, oil on composition board, 122 x 122cm, in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, purchased 2019 from the estate of Lady Nolan
Antarctica , 1964, oil on composition board, 121.00 x 121.0cm, in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London
Alan Moorehead, the distinguished Australian author whose book on Gallipoli had been one of the inspirations for Nolan"s series on that subject in the 1950s was also behind the voyage to Antarctica in 1964. He planned to write about the heroic age of explorers and Nolan, who accompanied him, was to paint the subject. The book was not written but Moorehead"s introduction to Nolan"s London and New York exhibition catalogues evoked in words the landscape that Nolan depicted in paint: "as you gaze upwards, you see a tremendous mirage forming. It creates a second range of mountains on top of the first, and this false range is impossibly, unbelievably high, and often its outlines are clearer than the real range that lies below."
Sidney Nolan (1917-1992)
Antarctica, 1964
signed, dated and inscribed verso: "Antarctica / 29 Aug 1964 / nolan"
oil on board
122.0 x 122.0cm (48 1/16 x 48 1/16in).
